[tor-bugs] #5164 [- Select a component]: Idea: alternative to obfsproxy, how to simply stop ALL tor censorship

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#5164: Idea: alternative to obfsproxy, how to simply stop ALL tor censorship
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks           |          Owner:     
     Type:  project               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:     
Component:  - Select a component  |        Version:     
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 It's been said evading censorship is a game of driving up false positives
 and that "we" control the pace of the arms race. What about not playing
 this game back and forth? Here is a sure(?) way to stop all censorship of
 tor by parties that do not want (or can't) "just whitelist the internet".
 Just as a side benefit you no longer need the larger part of the tor
 network to be "outside" the
 censorship firewalls because this is not about making client->bridge
 traffic censorship resistant but any client->entry and optionally all tor
 network communications.

 1) A lot more relays, ideally every user should also be an entry node by
 default
 2) recommend to run tor and other services on the same IP and same ports,
 otherwise provide option to run a random dummy server
 3) many nodes should run useful (and actually used) TSL encrypted services
 on the public server. The goal is that if Tor is blocked so will be
 hundreds of thousands of websites and other services.
 4) Tor authenticates to pass through to the Tor server. Depending on how
 aggressive the censorship is, entry node/bridge IPs and passwords don't
 even have to be secret. If Tor is outlawed (and this is enforced) bridges
 will still be necessary.


 Let me know why this won't work.

 (Sorry, I have no idea how I should label this ticket and if that's the
 right place anyway)

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